ANÍBAL TROILO

(1914 - 1975)

Anbal Carmelo Troilo, known as Pichuco, the
Bandonen Mayor de Buenos Aires, was born in 1914 in
the traditional quarter of El Abasto and was recruited as
a boy by Juan Maglio Pacho, conductor of one of the
first tango orchestras in Buenos Aires, to play the
bandonen. Thereafter he played in various orchestras
until 1937, when he established his own ensemble. He
exercised a strong influence on the development of the
tango. Sur (South), one of some sixty compositions and
written in 1948, presents a picture of a traditional corner
of one of the quarters of the city. Troilo died in 1975.